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Daemonax

May have managed to get an article corrected...

Sent the below email to a news outlet here in NZ, they changed the article's references from Dr to Mr...

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/02/health-minister-david-clark-dismisses-5g-radiation-exposure-warnings.amp.html

This recent article refers multiple times to a Dr Bruce Rapley, a person who does not seem to even exist. A quick Google search of his name finds that Bruce Rapley has no doctorate level degree, and also happily advertises a certificate in pseudoscience, namely his certificate for Neuro-Linguistic Programming, NLP.

The article has succeeded in giving the village idiot a platform where many will hear his nonsense and due to inaccuracies such as claiming he is Dr Bruce Rapley will seem convincing to many people.

WiFi radio signals are not ionizing, this means they don't have the energy to knock an electron off an atom, an atom that might be part of a DNA strand which may then cause a harmful mutation which gets copied. Despite massive amounts of research put into looking at whether cell phones, WiFi or other similar devices cause cancer, no good evidence has been found to show they do. Additionally there is no known mechanism, given wifi signals are non-ionizing, that could even plausibly allow these signals to cause cancer or the numerous other health problems people have claimed.

Please correct the inaccuracies in the above article, and perhaps inform readers that Bruce Rapley is a quack.

Thank you <Name ....>

Posted Mar 11, 2019, 9:47 AM UTC · edited

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mem_somerville•

Thalidomide? What?

I'm seeing this kind of nonsense around a lot in the crank world. Brace yourselves, skeptics. And work on getting the stories corrected.

Good job.

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PhidippusCent•

They still refer to him as a scientist...

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